I Worship His Shadow: 2 questions

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Not to complicate or contradict anyone… what I got out of some interviews with the creators of IWHS and from watching everything is this:

Insects and humans met. Fought. BrunnenG defeated them by using the insects habit of logic and method against them as weaknesses. Insects were force evolved into mindless machines by the victorious BrunnenG. These insects were no longer sentient beings but when combined with technology (as shown by the Stingers in the beginning of IWHS) they are useful as vehicles and weapons. The remaining insect survivor does not know this as he/she/it is buried in what will become the Cluster. HDS grows in power. His enslavement of humanity has caused him to have access to the creation of vast weapons of mass destruction (most notably using the blacksheet energy, which seems to occur natually for HDS or from his cloak?). Perhaps instinctively, HDS has the Forshadow designed in a style remeniscent of insect or biological forms, but the Forshadow is indeed a machine. Impressive, but mechanical. They use it to destroy Brunnis 2. Kai’s Stinger is the only one not vaporized by blacksheets while attacking the Foreshadow and serves as a sampling of spaceflight/weapon technology that HDS can capture. Over the thousands of years that follow Brunnis 2’s destruction, HDS and the Divine Order are still trying to harness the technology of the living being with machine components. They have robotic drones with human bodies and they have a ship called the MegaShadow which appears organic but is not truly alive. The Divine Order has still yet failed to crack the essence of the problem until (as sgtdraino suggested) they capture the Lexx’s emino acids from the Ostral B heretics (which was a great point, thank you). Then the Divine Order creates the Lexx, fed by the meat of thousands of enslaved humans.

An interesting note: the Lexx is still nowhere near the final result that the BrunnenG had. The Stingers show technology melded to organics in a clean and styled manner without exposed guts. the Lexx and its moths seem to be far more primitive attempts that fail to mask the guts and slime and flech & blood of the organic parts, as most things would if they were evolved enough to consider stylizing for ergonomics and aesthetic appeal.

Yes. I’m obsessed with this stuff. I love IWHS’s accomplishments in design and conceptualizing. I find it more successful than the rest of Lexx in this aspect. Whoever came up with the blacksheet weapons took the classic “death-ray” to a very interesting new level and the BrunnenG ships and the Foreshadow are brilliant science fiction concepts executed with great visual flare. I like it so much I wish I had thought of it first.
-Jace